{"id":152115,"date":"2017-02-07T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/prince-william-calls-for-end-to-stigma-on-mental-illness\/"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:09:00","slug":"prince-william-calls-for-end-to-stigma-on-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/prince-william-calls-for-end-to-stigma-on-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William calls for end to stigma on mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince William is speaking out about ending the stigma surrounding mental health treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">William told a gathering of health writers in London on Monday that treating mental health with the same respect as physical health &#8220;should be the norm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">He calls the United Kingdom&#8217;s suicide rate among men under the age of 40 &#8220;an appalling stain on our society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">William says telling someone when you can&#8217;t cope &#8220;is a positive step and a sign of strength, not weakness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Mental health is the focus of Heads Together, a charity William leads with his wife, Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, and his brother, Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">The trio competed against each other in a 50-meter race on Sunday to promote the charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince William is speaking out about ending the stigma surrounding mental health treatment. William told a gathering of health writers in London on Monday that treating mental health with the same respect as physical health &#8220;should be the norm.&#8221; He calls the United Kingdom&#8217;s suicide rate among men under the age of <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/prince-william-calls-for-end-to-stigma-on-mental-illness\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}